Fearless Writing: Multigenre to Motivate and Inspire

Description

"Multigenre writing is an immersion in a big topic of personal importance. I want students to taste such passionate immersion. I want them to experience how that immersion, combined with the possibility of multiple genres, can waken a boldness of expression in them. Students subjective experience with multigenre will affect their attitude toward writing. It will affect your attitude toward teaching."
-Tom Romano

What does it mean to write fearlessly? Tom Romano illustrates the power of multigenre papers to push students beyond the "safety zone" of narrative and exposition into a place where fact meets imagination, and research meets creativity. A place to try the untried. Fearless Writing empowers students to leap into this personal, multifaceted take on research writing by giving you specific strategies and practical ideas to help students:

• Generate topic ideas
• Design research plans
• Develop core elements of a multigenre project
• Create innovative genres and "golden threads" of unifying elements.

While multigenre papers address many Common Core writing standards, Tom s passionate response to both the strengths and weaknesses of the Common Core serves as a lightning bolt of awareness, and a rallying cry for a writing curriculum of genre diversity.

Expand your notion of writing and teaching writing, fearlessly.

Read sample chapters here.